On Friday 13 March 2009 20:59, Dinesh Joshi wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com
wrote:
So you have only one box actually talking to the ADSL. Will a hardware router help in my case? I will also try out openDNS as suggested by others.
You are overloading the MTNL router. It cannot handle too many machines. Its supposed to handle only one machine. Anyway, the best way around this is get a small machine ( even a netbook would do ), install your favorite distro and then DONT NAT. Use squid proxy. I believe it can DNS cache too. I wouldn't recommend using OpenDNS ( i've my bones to pick with them :P ). You can use MTNLs DNS servers ( several of them ) and try how the performance is.
All are equally rotten with round robin breakdowns.
Also you can block connection to the major update sites and allow them only during a particular interval ( maybe at night? ) and set the doze machines to update then.
-- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi